About
It's 2:30 pm on a sunny Friday afternoon. I'm sitting in a Starbucks when a notification pops up on my phone:
“Thank you for purchasing your flight ticket from Paris to New York.”
I didn't buy any ticket.
My email had been compromised. Someone else was controlling my digital identity.
That moment sparked my interest in online security and digital identity.
Today, I work at the Research Center for Computer Science of Toulouse (IRIT), where my research focuses on giving people stronger security and control over their digital lives.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science and Telecommunications — Université de Toulouse
- Visiting Ph.D. — Sant’Anna School for Advanced Studies of Pisa
- M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science — University of Milan
- Additional courses — University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University
Publications
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Yang, Qifan, Lepore, Cristian, et al.
“From Theory to Practice: Data Minimisation and Technical Review of Verifiable Credentials under the GDPR.”
Computer Law & Security Review, vol. 57, 2025, Article 106138. -
Comandé, Giovanni, Hinrichs, Oliver, Yang, Qifan, Crepax, Tommaso, Lepore, Cristian, et al.
PINIO URIS.
2025. -
Lepore, Cristian, Romain Laborde, and Jessica Eynard.
“Aligning eIDAS and Trust Over IP: A Mapping Approach.”
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), 2024. -
Lepore, Cristian, et al.
“A Model for Assessing the Adherence of E-Identity Solutions to
Self-Sovereign Identity.”
Springer, 2024. -
Laborde, Romain, Lepore, Cristian, et al.
“The Interplay Between Policy and Technology in Metaverses:
Towards Seamless Avatar Interoperability Using Self-Sovereign Identity.”
2023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom). -
Eynard, Jessica, Lepore, Cristian, et al.
L’identité numérique en construction. Quels enjeux et quels modèles ?
Bruylant, 2024. -
Bartoletti, Massimo, Lepore, Cristian, et al.
“A Formal Model of Algorand Smart Contracts.”
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2021), Revised Selected Papers, Springer, 2021. -
Lepore, Cristian, et al.
“A Survey on Blockchain Consensus with a Performance Comparison
of PoW, PoS and Pure PoS.”
Mathematics, vol. 8, no. 10, 2020, Article 1782.